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& have now closed to visitors for the week, we reopen on Tuesday 11 October. Edward Lear, Mark Catesby, Maria Merian & the rest of the Library & Archives team would like to wish you all a very happy watch out for more tweets..🦁🦜🦋🐊🦈🦀

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2022-10-06

Attending tomorrow? In we will have a short talk beforehand at 4.45pm. Free and no need to book. This month the focus is the subject of our most recent blog - some of the past: https://t.co/3BBIt2R1aa … 🐍🦎

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2020-03-09

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was in 1807. & known for the in Crystal Palace Park in London. The in includes a few original by Hawkins.

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2020-02-08

Attending Tues 11 Feb? We have a short talk beforehand at 4.45pm in about our featuring this time, Victorian wildlife artist Joseph Wolf, as we continue to celebrate his bicentenary. These & prints are our favourites!

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2020-02-06

Enjoyed this brilliant video of Robert (Bob) McCracken Peck's talk about Edward Lear, his natural history art & links to ZSL. Includes some items in the collections of I am spending part of the trying to catch up on podcasts: https://t.co/ibS4XtBme9

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2020-01-25

is open today but will be closed tomorrow Wednesday 18 December. We are open again as usual on Thursday. As a black-throated thrush has been spotted we thought you may like to see a lithograph of a couple from Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873.

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2019-12-17

Tomorrow's is about Europe so how could we resist the chance to share some Edward Lear lithographs in Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1837? Like to see more? Lear will be the subject of our next short talk in at 4.45 on Tues 10 Dec.

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2019-11-23

Tomorrow evening will be giving a short talk on that feature in some of historic books. No need to book, just turn up for a 4:45pm start

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2019-11-12

"The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat..."
These famous lines are by the nonsense poet Edward Lear, but he was also a highly skilled artist? These are just two of the many images by him in special collections.

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2019-10-03

Outside the magnolia is beginning to do admire it if you are visiting us! Meanwhile enjoy this beautiful engraving of Magnolia grandiflora by Georg D. Ehret in Mark Catesby's 'The natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands,...' publ. 1731-43.

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2019-06-18

Just a quick reminder that will be closed over the Bank Holiday weekend. We will close at 5:30pm today, and reopen on Tuesday 23rd April at 9:30am.

Wishing you all an Easter!

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2019-04-18

Because it's Awareness Week, we thought we'd share with you this lovely charcoal sketch by Joseph Wolf c.1851.

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2016-11-08

Happy 174th birthday to J. Keulemans, a highly talented artist. Some of his artwork can be found here in

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2016-06-09

As it's such a sunny day, we wanted to share these bright and colourful images with you by Joseph Smit

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2016-05-07

Who knew pigeons could be so beautiful? A lady called Madame Knip (1781-51) certainly did

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2016-04-21

And another couple of belated images for yesterday by von Rosenhof https://t.co/p06HYdUteA

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2016-03-22

A little late, but happy Here are some images by Mark Catesby held in

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2016-03-22

Some Edward Lear paintings from to celebrate the Royal opening of

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2016-03-17

A few more images to celebrate taken from copies of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle

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2016-02-12